1915 Model T Engine Question

[talon63]

So I'm building a 1915 Ford Coupelet, and trying to add some detail in 1/32 scale, and ran across this.  I know the carb is on the other side of the engine, down low and this looks like an air intake, but in all the other reference pics I've seen for the 1915 coupelet, this has not been there. Is this engine from a later model Ford, or some type of aftermarket alteration?

[Shardik]

I think that's a horn.

[Craig Irwin]

Yes, that's a horn, the tube goes through the firewall to a squeeze bulb near the lower left corner of the windshield. 

[talon63]

I should clean my glasses. Yes, I now see the horizontal that runs back through the firewall. Thanks guys.

[espo]

Your carb is mounted low on the passenger side, it's an up draft type carb and not the down draft that most people are familiar with.

[misterNNL]

A simple Google search under"photo of 1915 model T Ford carb "should access a ton of photos for reference.

[talon63]

Thanks guys. I knew about the carb. It was the horn being under the hood, and the particular reference photo that threw me.

[Eric Macleod]

Does this help you?

[Art Anderson]

Thanks guys. I knew about the carb. It was the horn being under the hood, and the particular reference photo that threw me.

1915 Model T horns were under the hood, mounted to the dashboard (what we call the firewall is, in fact, referred to internally in the industry as the dashboard--that thingie with all the gauges inside the body is the instrument panel!).  This was pretty much at the end of the "Bulb Horn" air actuated horn, where the horn squawked when the driver squeezed a large rubber bulb located next to him inside the car.

1915 Model T horn, mounted where it was, on the dashboard: